The Poison Song
core novel 2019 The Winnowing Flame Trilogy
Record
| First published | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.22 (4,700 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 576 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781472235237 |
Synopsis
The Poison Song opens with its characters still recovering from the costly battles of the previous novel, as the Jure'lia continue their assault on the world and time for a defense grows short. Noon, Vintage, Tormalin and their allies, including the warrior Bern, must regroup and devise a plan capable of ending the Jure'lia threat for good rather than merely holding it back. The story moves between quiet moments of grief and healing among the survivors and large-scale confrontations involving the war-beasts and the invaders' living weapons, as the group works to turn scattered knowledge gathered across the trilogy into a workable strategy. As the series' concluding volume, it follows the characters' efforts to unite the war's fractured forces before the Jure'lia can complete whatever purpose has driven their return.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Winnowing Flame Trilogy
- Series: The Winnowing Flame Trilogy core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jen Williams
Notes
- From the series record (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy): Complete trilogy; the first two volumes each won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Winnowing Flame Trilogy: position 3 of 3: previous The Bitter Twins (2018)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen_Williams
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen_Williams_(author)
- https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Jen-Williams/The-Poison-Song.html
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